Road to Castellucio

We are driving from Barolo to Garda, on Lake Garda in late September. After Garda we are driving back to Milan for a few days.

Lots of options, but any suggested itinerary for the road trip to and from Garda?

Thanks,

Hello,

My husband and I want to celebrate our 15th yr anniv and planning on going to Italy. We are both vaccinated. Is it safe to travel there now? If so would you say a lot of the wineries up north are open. We can't decide if we want to go up north to tuscany, florence, lake como, cinque terre, etc or should we do naples and amalfi coast. Our dates are Oct 1-9. Is the weather warm enough for Amalfi coast? I just don't know if everything is open and worth the trip? Any guidance is appreciated. Thank you!

there are many ferries between towns around Lago di Garda. Only two ferries btw east and west can take cars, but you can see the opposite bank view without taking the ferry anyway. The idea ferry is btw north and south towns.

Some ferries allow bikes, but not all roads are safe for bikers, especially my partner has terrible eyesight, so he can only bike on places without much traffic, or on specific bike road.

the longest ferry btw south and north takes more than 4.5 hours, and can't take our car. So round trip would take 9 hours, which is not doable. So we can only choose a shorter ferry to see the view on the two sides of the lake. Which ferry has the best view and worth a round trip ferry?

Dear All,

I'm trying to work out the itinerary for our visit to Sicily (travelling with my girlfriend) starting on the 10th of June. We arrive and also end our trip in Aeroporto di Palermo Falcone e Borsellino. I intend to rent a car through Auto Europe as suggested here in the forums. I also read it's best to avoid driving in Palermo and only hiring the car after departing the city. So as I understand we need to take the bus after flying in, and back again after 2-3 days to get the car?

Is the smallest category generally enough (C1, VW Up) for a couple or is it worth spending more (VW Polo, or upwards) for doing a road trip around Sicily?

Could you please help me to allocate the number of days appropriately? We are young, energetic, food and nature-loving people.

What I have in mind currently (open also for other suggestions):

Palermo, city and Monreale with the cathedral

Segesta with the temple, Erice medieval village

Mazzara del Vallo

Agrigento - Valley of Temples

Modica

Capo Passero

Pachino village

Siracusa

Taormina

Etna

Cefalu

Aeolian Islands

Mondello

In case this is too much for this amount of time, what questions should be raised to help with deciding what to skip/replace?

Also, is there any ticket that should be booked online in advance to avoid the crowds?

Thanks for your kind help and input!

We are thinking about going to the Ravello Music Festival--see the concert on Sat. Aug 21. However, given the roads I am a bit worried driving back from the Festival to our hotel in Sorrento, probably at 10 pm or later on Saturday night. I haven't booked the music festival tickets because I would love your advice. The hotel is non-refundable (yes, I am regretting that already!) and too much to not use.

We are currently on a road trip through Italy with our own car. Interested in going to the Aeolian and possibly Egadi islands.

What are the restrictions for taking your own car to these islands? I understand some islands don't accept cars. We are primarily interested in Vulcano, Lipari, and Salina, but also possibly Filicudi and Favignana. We have already been to Panarea and Stromboli in previous years.

Is there some website where you can see what rules exist for which island?

Hello everyone,

We are planning to rent a car in Italy from Florence to Tuscany countryside, to the Dolomites and then drop off in Venice and it seems like a manual car is much cheaper. We can drive a manual but we don't know if it's difficult to drive in Italy. We don't want to drive a manual car if there's a lot of hills to get stuck on. Is it pretty easy? We don't mind driving over a hill but don't want to be stopped on a steep hill for a light or something.

TIA

Hello , good day everyone!

I’m non-EU citizen , vaccinated , planning to make a road trip from Germany to northern italy around 28 of july

what are the restrictions do i need to know about before making reservations?

Hi everyone, I'm about to book flights to Catania for me and my girlfriend, it's roughly 3 hours flight from where I currently am.

We're meant to arrive on Wednesday around 8pm and return on Sunday at 5pm which gives us roughly 3.5 days.

Were really not so picky when traveling and often prefer to avoid tourist traps so Sicily sounds ideal. Catania destination form our location.

However, a good freind of mine who has been all over Sicily strongly suggested to hire a care and drive to Pallermo and spend three days there instead, which can be done in 3 hours.

Given that we only have three days im wondering if its worth spending 5-6 hours in total driving back and forth?

One one hand, our last day on Sunday we can wake up early and drive back but I'd rather hang out stress free, on the other hand pallermo seems to be a better deistanation according to my freind. general travel guides/blogs etc.

Hopefully one of you can be kind enough and advise? Would any of you do the drive in the 3-4 days?

Hello Friendly Travelers!

We will be in Florene from September 15th - September 19th. Although we are staying in Florence, we are allocating 1 full day for more "tourist" sites. We have been to Florence previously and saw the Uffizi (although somewhat quickly), Accademia, and climbed to the top of the Duomo. This time around we are going with a couple friend of ours who have not been to Florence, but also open to whatever (one is more into museums than the other). That all being said...

Initially I was trying to decide with whether to go back to the Uffizi or to do the Palace Pitti and the Boboli Gardens. I ultimately decided on the Palace and the Boboli because I have not yet seen it and our friends our open. 1. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

.2. I have now realized that the gardens open at 8:15 AM but the Palace does not open until 1:30 PM (I believe). As I really want to make the most of our day, I am wondering, 1. How long does one need at the gardens? and 2. Could we potentially do the gardens in the morning, walk over and do the duomo and grab lunch and then walk back to do the Palace around 2? I know it is kind of non-sensical to walk back and forth, but it really is not that far and we are into the additional "exercise." Again, thoughts on this would be very helpful.